SHORE FISHES OF GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 



351 



MEASUREMENTS AND FIN RAYS OF Eideftorham^hiis loiigi- 



rostrts. 



No. Stanford University Museum 



Total length in mm 



Length without lower jaw in mm 



Lower jaw beyond upper jaw 



Head 



Depth 



Pectoral 



Eye: Head 



Number of dorsal rays 



Number of anal rays 



12333 



We have also numerous young examples of a long-finned Hemiram- 

 phid, apparently a EuleptorhatTiphus and perhaps Euleptorhamphus 

 longirostris^ taken from the stomach of a horse mackerel ( TJninjiiis 

 thyn?tus) about 7° 26' N. ; 100° 26' W., in December; and from the 

 stomach of an ocean bonito ( Gymnosarda pela7nis) at about 4° 

 30' N. ; 87° W., in July. During July these young individuals were 

 extremely abimdant between Clipperton and Cocos islands, but we 

 saw no adults. Those collected are about 75 mm. long; depth about 

 7; sides flat and parallel; pectorals 3|^; beak very short, about 9 in 

 body, but perhaps broken in all, entirely gone in many. 



Family EXOCCETID^. 

 24. EVOLANTIA MICROPTERA (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Exoccetus microptc7-us Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xix, 92, 

 1846. 



Evolantia microptera. Heller & Snodgrass, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., v, 

 1903, 189. — Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1902 (1903), 434 (Ha- 

 waiian Islands). 



Range. — East Indies ; Hawaiian Islands ; Eastern Pacific north of 

 Galapagos Islands. 



One specimen, 150 mm. long, taken at 4° N., 90° W., July 12, in 

 warm water about 250 miles north of the Galapagos Islands. 



25. EXOCCETUS VOLITANS Linnaeus. 



Exoccetus volitanslA'H'tiiEVS, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 316, 1758. — Jordan & Ever- 

 MANN, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., iii, Addenda, 2835 ^"^ 2836, 1898. 



Exoccetus evolans Linn/EUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. xii, 521, 1766 (based on Gronow); 

 Giinther, Cat., vi, 282, 1866. 



Halocypselus evola7is, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 I, 729, 1896. 



Range. — Widely distributed in the tropics. 



